Malta Inflation Rate
How much consumer prices are rising compared with a year ago, on the EU's harmonised index (HICP), the measure the ECB uses.
2.0%
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: FRED series CP0000MTM086NEST · HICP, all items, year on year.
Malta Inflation Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Malta, the inflation rate fell by 0.8pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 2.7% in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 0.4% in Aug 2021 to 7.4% in Oct 2022.
Its average since Jan 1997 is 2.4%, and the latest reading is below that.
Malta is 40th of 53 countries in our Inflation Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- FRED
- Series
- CP0000MTM086NEST
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
The NSO also publishes a national retail price index, which can differ. The European Central Bank targets 2% inflation for the euro area as a whole.
Data refreshed 2026-10-12. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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